Motivational Quotes

Life

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

- Morgan, Charles

Best Quotes about Life

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Life is a horizontal fall.

Cocteau, Jean

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

Twain, Mark

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Erhard, Werner

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Stone, Robert

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Boulanger, Nadia

When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

Artaud, Antonin

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Cousteau, Jacques

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New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.

Simon, Neil

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Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Brooke, Rupert

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The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

Young, J. Z.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Percy, Walker

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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

Byron, Lord

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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

Woolf, Virginia

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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!

Proverb, Scottish

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This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

Buddha

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Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.

Platen

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Debevoise, P. L.

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Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]

Dane, Frank

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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

McMillan, Terry

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.

Blackie, Professor

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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

Giles, Henry

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One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.

Canetti, Elias

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Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Camus, Albert

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The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open.

William Shakespeare

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So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the great mystery which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.

Hayward, Jeremy W.

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Erickson, Lou

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Any city however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich. These are at war with one another.

Plato

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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.

Angelou, Maya

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Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.

Caddy, Eileen

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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Kempis, Thomas

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People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

Duncan, Isadora

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Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Brecht, Bertolt